This post will detail some of the updates made to the Fiddler OAuth inspector and gives examples of how to use it. Background I previously wrote about Creating a Fiddler Extension for SharePoint 2013 App Tokens . As my friend Andrew Connell let...

This post shows how to consume a Web API secured with Azure Active Directory using ADAL.js. Background This post is part of a series on building a SharePoint app that communicate with services protected by Azure AD. Part 1 - An Architecture for SharePoint...

This post will show how to create a Web API that calls other services on behalf of the current user. Background This post is part of a series on building a SharePoint app that communicate with services protected by Azure AD. Part 1 - An Architecture for...

This post will show how to call an O365 Exchange Online API from a SharePoint provider-hosted app. The code for this post is available at https://github.com/kaevans/spapp-exchange . Background This post is part of a series on building a SharePoint...

This post will show how to authenticate a user using OpenID Connect in a SharePoint provider hosted app without prompting the user for additional credentials. Background This post is part of a series on building a SharePoint app that communicate...

This post will show an architecture for a SharePoint provider hosted app that calls other services such as the O365 API for Exchange, Azure AD Graph API, PowerBI API, or a custom Web API. Background This post is part of a series on building a SharePoint...

This post will show how to configure DocumentDB as a data source to be indexed using Azure Search. Background I wrote a post Indexing Azure SQL Database with Azure Search that shows how to index an Azure SQL Database using Azure Search. Once I started...

This post will show how to index a table in an Azure SQL Database using Azure Search. Background I am always trying to learn more about Azure, about things that are possible. One thing I just learned today that I had to share was the ability to...

This post will show how to create the Adventure Works sample in an Azure SQL Database using the new Azure portal. Background Every once in awhile, I will need a sample database to test something out. Such was the case today, I wanted to use the...

This post will show you how to use the new Stream Analytics service with Azure Event Hubs to process streaming event data in near real time. Background Stream Analytics is a new service that enables near real time complex event processing over streaming...

This post will show how to build a simulator to send messages to Azure Event Hubs. Background I have been doing a lot of work with Event Hubs stream processing lately, and I find that I need different types of device simulators. I need one that...

This post will show how to host an Azure Event Hubs EventProcessorHost in a cloud service worker role. Background Imagine that you have a scenario where you have a solution that needs to ingest millions of events per second, and you need to process these...

This post shows how to autoscale Azure Cloud Services using a Service Bus queue. Background My role as an Architect for Azure COE requires me to have many different types of discussions with customers who are designing highly scalable systems. A...

This post will demonstrate autoscaling in Azure virtual machines. Background While I spend most of my time working with PaaS (platform as a service) components of Azure such as Cloud Services and Websites, I frequently need to help customers with solutions...

This post shows how to use Maven to build projects in Visual Studio Online using the Team Foundation Server plug-in for Eclipse. Background As I have been doing a bit of Java coding lately, I am starting to see some of the opportunities to highlight capabilities...

This post will show how easy it is to use a local Git repository with Eclipse for source control, and how to push to Visual Studio Online. Background Working on a few demos with Eclipse, and I am a bit of a code packrat. As I build stuff, I post...

This post will show how to use Eclipse to build a web application that uses JMS to send AMQP 1.0 messages to Azure Event Hubs. Background I have been working on a project that leverages Azure Event Hubs, Azure Stream Analytics, and other related technologies...

This post will show how to leverage various Azure SDKs for Java using Eclipse and Maven. In just a few short steps, you will have a Java application that leverages Azure services. Background I have been working with a customer and trying to do demos...

This post will show how to deploy an Azure worker role running Apache Tomcat using Eclipse, where the worker role is joined to a VNet. Background I have been working with a customer to deploy existing Java applications to Azure. One of their main...

This post will show how to install a new Active Directory forest on an Azure Virtual Network. We will use this domain controller and virtual network in subsequent posts. DISCLAIMER: This post does not contain definitive guidance on the correct way...

This post focuses on how to create a virtual machine with the tools necessary to deploy Java code to an Azure worker role using Eclipse and Tomcat. Background The wonderful part of my job as an Architect for the Azure Center of Excellence at Microsoft...

I am very, very honored to be the keynote speaker at Atlanta Code Camp this Saturday, October 11th 2014. I will be presenting “What Mobile First, Cloud First Means to Developers.” I will talk about industry trends driving both mobile and cloud...

This post will show how to create custom classes for a SharePoint 2013 app that enable the use of Azure Redis Cache.
Background
Often times there are web application design constraints that require use of session state. From Scott Guthrie’s...

This post will show some of the features of Orchard that I have recently fallen in love with. Background I have been playing with several CMS solutions in Azure Websites. For instance, I recently built a site for my son’s high school football team...

This post shows how we addressed a throttling problem when writing to an existing system using Microsoft Azure. Background I am working on a project with a customer, and we had the need to write to an existing system. The idea was to collect input...